Silver Screen Science - Jaws

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Science, Education, Earth Sciences, Natural Sciences, Science:natural Sciences

4.8 • 764 Ratings

🗓️ 24 April 2024

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

It’s a new series of Silver Screen Science! As usual, we’re discussing how science is portrayed on the big screen, this time with a new theme: Sharks! It’s a series about shark movies, so how could we skip the most famous and influential shark film of all time? – Jaws. Check out our website for blog posts and more: http://commondescentpodcast.com/ Join us on Patreon to support the podcast and enjoy bonus content: https://www.patreon.com/commondescentpodcast Got a topic you want to hear about? Submit your episode request here: https://commondescentpodcast.com/request-a-topic/ We’re an Audible Affiliate Partner! Use this link for a 30-day free trial to Audible: https://www.audibletrial.com/CommonDescent Lots more ways to connect with us: https://linktr.ee/common_descent The Intro and Outro music is “On the Origin of Species” by Protodome. More music like this at http://ocremix.org.

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0:00.0	You're listening to the Common Descent Podcast.
0:19.0	Hello, Will. Hello, David. Hello, everybody, and welcome back to Silver Screen Science, a series
0:25.2	here on the Common Descent podcast where we talk about the science of movies, not just nitpicking the good
0:30.4	and the bad, but exploring how science is portrayed in film. This is the third of our three-part series this month, April of 2024, where we are
0:41.6	discussing movies on the topic of sharks.
0:44.8	Yep.
0:45.5	We started with Meg 2, The Trench, because it came out very recently.
0:50.0	Then we hopped 24 years back in time and did Deep Blue Sea, which is a whole lot of fun.
0:56.2	And this time, we have hopped exactly another 24 years back in time.
1:00.3	I didn't realize that.
1:01.2	To the mid-70s to discuss the shark movie.
1:04.8	Yep.
1:05.4	The shark movie.
1:06.7	This episode of Silver Spring Science, at long last, we are discussing Jaws.
1:12.5	I'm so happy.
1:14.1	I've been waiting for this for so long.
1:16.0	We've been talking about doing a Jaws episode for a long, long time.
1:18.8	It has always been, let's do a shark series.
1:22.0	Yes.
1:22.4	So that we can talk about Jaws.
1:24.3	Yes.
1:25.0	When we decided to do Meg 2, we figured, yeah, now let's do, let's do Meg 2 and then
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